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Rapper Rick Ross crashes Rolls Royce into a Fort Lauderdale building following shooting incident

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Rapper Rick Ross might be the target of an investigation involving a shooting incident and car crash in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Police are looking into what caused a Rolls Royce, driven by Ross, to go crashing into a building early Monday morning.
According to NBC Miami, Ross sped away as another vehicle opened fire at his car, sending it off the road.
Authorities confirmed that neither Ross, 37, whose real name is William L. Roberts, nor his passenger Shateria L. Moragne-el, 28, was injured. Initially Ross and his companion were not named because they were "fearful for their lives," police said.
Several witnesses claimed they saw Ross driving the silver 2011 Rolls Royce, but police are still looking for the shooter and driver in the other car, which they say fled the area before officers arrived.

Kate Upton’s model career is shaping up nicely

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Usually, the world is buzzing right about now over who will grace the cover of the 2013 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. But last year's chosen one, Kate Upton, is still in the spotlight — and is turning out to be the most profitable model the magazine has ever churned out.
This week, Upton will be unveiled as the new model for Sam Edelman in a campaign with photographer Sebastian Faena, a source tells us.
Ivan Bart, senior vice president and managing director of IMG, which reps Upton, tells Confidenti@l they knew they had something special “the minute she walked in the door” on her 18th birthday.
“I would try to get her in front of famous photographers, even though she was a voluptuous swimsuit model, and her personality would change that conception of her,” Bart tells us. “If we saw resistance, we would say, ‘Just meet her’ and she would change their minds. She’s hilarious and she makes you feel good. Brands know that value.”
Upton, 20, has done campaigns for Guess, Dooney & Burke, Skullcandy, SoBe and the swimwear company Beach Bunny. She has had roles in “Tower Heist” and “The Three Stooges” and photo shoots featured in Italian Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, V, GQ and Esquire. She’s flaunted her curves in commercials for Mercedes-Benz and Carl’s Jr., and that’s only a small slice of her resume, which has rocketed her to multimillionaire status in under a year. Irina Shayk, SI’s 2011 covergirl, has not been as successful as Upton. Brooklyn Decker, 2010’s face, has transformed into a successful actress.
“It’s really only the beginning for (Upton),” Bart says. “Kate’s only beginning to first realize the power that she has. Last year to this year it was still a lot of building blocks, now brands want to up their value. A lot of products are now approaching us because she’s accessible and women are captivated by her. Last year it became very clear in my mind that she was a supermodel like Cindy Crawford."
Upton’s agent, Lisa Benson, says Upton’s next foray will likely be in acting — but that she’s taking it very seriously.
“She has so many roles offered and network TV calls every single day with something,” she says. “What’s kept her apart is she’s doing the homework and studying, and should she make that transition, she’ll be ready. She is waiting for the right role that she will be good at.”
Benson adds that Upton is certainly not shedding that bikini any time soon, though. “Right now, she wants to focus on modeling because it is lucrative for her,” she says.
Susan Sarandon’s table-tennis hotspot, Spin, is being franchised. The New York-based social club, now open in Los Angeles as a private social club with Andre Balazs, also has locations in Toronto and Milwaukee. “She is franchising it and she’s opening many more locations across the country in the next few years,” a friend of the actress tells us. More beer. More pong. Never a bad thing.
She’s been nominated for nine Grammys and won two AMAs, but now Katy Perry’s been honored in a way she can really wax poetic about. The 28-year-old pop star was immortalized in wax over the weekend at the Las Vegas Madame Tussauds museum. On Saturday, Perry posed for the unveiling of a life-sized sculpture whose look was inspired by the blue ’do she sported during her 2011 California Dreams tour

The heart-stopping moment when a man sticks a gun in the face of a politician on live TV — and the politician fights back

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A top Bulgarian politician had a brush with death on Saturday after a gunman pointed a pistol at his head as he delivered a televised speech. 


Ahmed Dogan escaped unscathed after falling to the ground as security tackled the gunman in front of stunned meeting hall of 3,000 people in the capital, Sofia. No shots were fired, but the Sofia Globe reports that sources say the gun might have jammed.

“Ahmed Dogan is in good health. Everything is under control," Ceyhan Ibryamov, a member of Dogan’s political party, said after the incident.

Dogan has led Bulgaria’s ethnic Turkish party for 25 years. He was in the middle of a speech to party members when a man in a black coat rushed the stage, holding a gun at arm’s length pointed directly in the face of the 58-year-old politician. Delegates and security jumped on the man, and television footage shows them beating, kicking and punching him.
Police arrested 25-year-old Oktai Enimehmedov, a Bulgarian man and ethnic Turk from the Black Sea town of Burgas. Enimehmedov was also carrying two knives, officials said.
It was unclear how he got past security and into the meeting hall. His motive was not known.
Bulgarian officials say Enimehmedov has a criminal record for drug possession, robberies and hooliganism.
Saturday's incident was the most serious attack on a  politician in post-communist Bulgaria since ex-prime Minister Andrei Lukanov was shot dead near his home in 1996.

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Gadariya By Ashfaq Ahmed

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The great Freud rip-out rip-off: Gallery admits tearing pictures out of catalogue and selling them as original works of art

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A gallery has admitted ripping out pages from a Lucian Freud exhibition catalogue and selling them as original works of art on eBay.


The Rockingham Gallery, which boasts it has hundreds of authentic works by some of the world’s greatest artists, was last week selling ‘Amazing Lucian Freud Etchings’ for up to £150 each.
It was also offering what it describes as ‘original works by David Hockney, Henry Moore and Sir Peter Blake’.
But a Mail on Sunday investigation has established that the Freuds are actually pages from an exhibition catalogue printed in 1991.
Lawyers acting for the artist’s estate have now ordered the gallery to remove all of the images from both its eBay ‘shop’ and its own website.
The gallery, which is based in Market Harborough in Leicestershire, had been inviting customers to bid for what it called ‘Vintage Freud Etchings’, with asking prices of between £50 and £150.
The gallery described the ‘works’, which included Girl Sitting, Man  Posing, Naked Man On A Bed and  Ill In Paris, as ‘vintage etchings’  and ‘outstanding prints’ at ‘unbelievable prices’.
It assured customers they could be confident they were buying from a genuine gallery.
But experts last night said the descriptions were grossly misleading and insisted that a genuine etching  by Freud, whose sitters included the Queen and Kate Moss, would sell for between £10,000 and £145,000.
Frankie Rossi, director of Marlborough Fine Art, the country’s leading dealer in Freud etchings, said: ‘I think it’s outrageous what this gallery has done. I take exception to the description of the works as vintage etchings because they are neither vintage nor etchings.
All Lucian’s etchings, unlike these images, were numbered, signed and registered. If this gallery wants to sell pages from an exhibition catalogue, it should label them honestly.’
Art dealer Philip Mould, who co-presents BBC1’s Fake Or Fortune? with Fiona Bruce, said: ‘I think the gallery was clearly trying to pass the works off as original by implication. Unfortunately, this is becoming all too common because of the semi-anonymous nature of online sales. It is called trapping and people get very excited because they think they have found something special. It is like a virus sweeping through the art world.’
All of the Freud images were taken from the catalogue Lucian Freud: The Complete Etchings 1946-1991, which was produced for a retrospective of Freud’s work at the Thomas Gibson Fine Art gallery in London in 1991.  The catalogue, originally priced at £25, has high-quality embossed pages.
Simon Hall, owner of the Rockingham Gallery, last night said he had never set out to deceive anyone and insisted the description of the works as vintage etchings was a mistake.
He said: ‘This should not have happened and we should have described the images as “after an etching”.
‘The images are from the 1991  exhibition catalogue. We sell the actual page. I still think it’s fair to describe it as a print because a print is anything that is reproduced on paper.’ Mr Hall said the Freud works had been fairly priced and some sold for as little as 99p. He also insisted all the other works on the gallery’s home page and in the eBay shop had been properly labelled.
Hugh Gibson, a director of Thomas Gibson Fine Art, said: ‘When we produced this rather fancy catalogue in 1991, we could never have foreseen something like this.’
Deborah Rider, a senior solicitor with the law firm Goodman Derrick, which represents the Freud estate, confirmed the gallery had been asked to take down the images. She said: ‘Our client does take very seriously any activity which may be deemed to be a breach of copyright.’

Sundance kicks off with porn-obsessed 'Don Jon

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PARK CITY, Utah — The 2013 Sundance Film Festival got off to a rowdy and wry start Friday with “Don Jon’s Addiction,” written, directed by and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and co-starring Scarlett Johansson and Tony Danza.

As a wanna-be womanizer hooked on porn, Gordon-Levitt (“Looper”) lends his charming smile to a role that highlights his offbeat sensibility. Johansson plays the woman who could reroute his libido to the real world.
ohansson — whose current Broadway role in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” kept her from attending the festival opener at the Eccles Theatre — adds mainstream marketability to “Don’s” indie spirit, still the hallmark of Sundance as it laps its 25th official year.
ScarJo may not have had to endure the frigid Park City temperatures, which struggled to hit the double digits, but Naomi Watts was looking great to promote “Two Mothers,” which also bowed Friday.
The film, about lifelong friends (Watts and Robin Wright) who fall in love with each other’s grown sons, marks the Australian star’s return to edgier material. Female audiences at the Eccles may have been distracted by Watts and Wright’s on-screen objects of affection, newcomers Xavier Samuel and James Frecheville.
Earlier, festival-goers got a look at “Kill Your Darlings,” part of “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe’s transition from boy wizard to grownup. Playing gay Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg, Radcliffe is unrecognizable in dyed black hair and horn-rimmed glasses (on the red carpet, he added some chin scruff).
The film, co-starring Elizabeth Olsen as the Beats’ guardian angel, Edie Parker, is one of two Beat flicks at the fest, sharing space with the Jack Kerouac flick “Big Sur.”
Keri Russell, TV’s former “Felicity,” gives a comic turn in the adaptation of the best-selling novel “Austenland,” as a woman so obsessed with Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” that she heads to a theme park devoted to the 19th-century author. And Shailene Woodley sparked the high school dramedy treat “The Spectacular Now,” which was met with thunderous applause
Kristen Bell goes from box-office sinker “When in Rome” to the thoughtful indie “The Lifeguard,” about a frazzled New York reporter going back to her Connecticut hometown to take a job at a local pool.
The serious-minded “Mud,” a chewy Southern tale from “Take Shelter” director Jeff Nichols stars Matthew McConaughey as a criminal hiding out in a swamp who is discovered by two Arkansas kids. A de-glammed Reese Witherspoon co-stars as his wild girlfriend.
Another buzz-maker was “Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes,” in which Jessica Biel plays a mysterious neighbor to a troubled girl (Kaya Scodelario).
Finally, one of Saturday’s midnight slots was occupied by the hyperjumpy horror flick “S-V/H/S.” A sequel to a cult hit about videotapes that reveal ghastly happenings, it debuted in the spot that unleashed “The Blair Witch Project” from Sundance nearly 15 years ago. If that kind of success happens again, it’s an example of another thing Sundance does best — create heat even when the temperature is crazy cold.

Smokers’ Corner When in Canada

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Speaking near the Canadian Parliament Hall, Pinto told the mega-ultra-epic-mammoth crowd that he had returned to Canada to get rid of its corrupt politicians, parties and political system and impose true democracy with the help of the country’s armed forces, judiciary and ice hockey team.


‘I won’t move from here until I achieve my goal,’ he promised. ‘I will turn Ottawa into Nazareth and send Creaser and his evil men home even if they feed me to the lions!’

Most Canadian politicians in the government and opposition have been critical of Pinto. They have accused him of staying in Pakistan as a Pakistani only to return to Canada on the instructions of those who want to derail Canada’s democracy, topple an elected parliament and replace it with a technocratic set-up backed by the military, judiciary and the country’s ice hockey squad.

‘Pinto is a former failed politician and a spiritual fraud,’ a government spokesman claimed. ‘We know who he is working for, and believe me, it’s not John the Baptist.’

Pinto refuted the claim: ‘I don’t want power,’ he shouted from behind his bullet-proof, water-proof, sound-proof, smoke-free, digital, 60-inch flat-screen altar. ‘I am ready to give my life for my country!’
This created some confusion as many were not quite sure whether he meant giving his life for Pakistan or Canada.
‘For Canada!’ He clarified.
‘Does that mean you are ready to renounce your Pakistani citizenship?’ A nosy journalist asked him.
‘I’m a citizen of the world. Of Christendom. Of true democracy. What’s in a passport? Repent, fool!’ Pinto replied.

As he was saying this, he began to weep: ‘I had a dream last night. It was a most glorious dream. I saw a light descending from the blue skies of Ottawa. The light hit the ground and on the ground emerged tanks and soldiers marching towards victory and then snow began to fall. I looked closely and realised the big snow flakes were actually white curly wigs — the sort judges wear. Hallelujah!’

‘Hallelujah!’ The crowd chanted back. ‘Change! Change! Change!’ They began to shout, even though most of them were women who were basically demanding that they be allowed to change their babies’ diapers in peace.

‘I’ve been here for hours,’ one such woman who was with a shell-shocked baby told journalists. ‘The government is not allowing us to change our babies’ diapers. This is an outrage! We want change.’

And then it happened. While Pinto was speaking, an aide of his whispered something into his ears. Pinto stopped for a while, threw up his arms and began to shout out loud: ‘Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice! The Supreme Court of Canada has just ordered the arrest of the Prime Minister! Rejoice! Throw your children in the air and then catch them after they perform two somersaults and you perform four cartwheels. I hear the tanks coming. I hear the judiciary puffing its chest. I see an elected government collapsing. A glorious day for democracy!’

The Canadian media went into overdrive. Why did the SC decide to choose this very moment to deliver its verdict in an old case filed against the PM? Was it in on Pinto’s agenda and game? Would the military or a technocratic set-up follow?

A spokesperson of Canada’s Chief Justice (who also doubles as a TV anchor) denied the allegation: ‘The CJ doesn’t even know who Pinto is,’ he said.

The Canadian Supreme Court is situated only a few kilometres away from where Pinto was holding his rally.

‘Oh, that,’ the spokesperson replied. ‘The CJ thought there was a huge baby diaper sale taking place there.’

But as SC supporters continued to insist on the diaper sale theory, detractors warned that the SC’s decision was part of the Canadian establishment’s plan to derail democracy.

Canada’s leading political parties agreed, but were still cautious. However, everyone now looked towards what the party headed by the former captain of the Canadian ice hockey team, Jim Kant, would do.

Jim’s party has no representation in the parliament but does have street power.

During a press conference he put forward seven demands to the government: ‘We have taken a wait and see approach,’ Jim told reporters. ‘But we are putting out a list of seven demands to the government. 1: Hold elections ASAP, that is As Soon As Possible and not America Speaks Armenian Punk, okay? 2: Change some fishy personnel in the Election Commission of Canada; 3: The President of the country should resign. Just for the heck of it. 4: A truly neutral caretaker government should be formed, preferably in Zurich, Switzerland. 5: Five. 6: Seven. 7: One, Two, Three, Four and Five. Dig?’

At the time this report was filed by this correspondent, Pinto was still holding fort and sharing his latest dreams that now included visions of fairies and angels descending from the skies and rewriting the Canadian Constitution according to the dictates of the Bible (King James edition); Jim’s musclemen were trying to convince him to let them storm the Bastille in Paris; the SC was running out of prime ministers to fire; and the media was loudly gazing at its navel and calling it ‘Breaking News!’

Pak policy not dictated by US, says Indian FM

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There have been reports from Washington, which wants to see no distracting surprises ahead of the second-term swearing in of President Barack Obama and his new team, that the United States would hate to see trouble brewing between India and Pakistan.
“We are not influenced by anybody, including the US,” Mr Khurshid told a private news channel. “Neither does America pressurise us nor does it have any expectations that it can do so.”
It is true though that be they “America, Russia, China, Canada, Iran, Saudi Arabia or Malaysia, we speak to everybody,” Mr Khurshid said. He was asked whether India was influenced by America in matters concerning Pakistan.
Asked if there was a need to review the dialogue process between the two countries, he said reviews periodically happened as these were inbuilt in the dialogue process.
Mr Khurshid said the decision to send back Pakistani players who were visiting for the Indian Hockey League, saw the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party speaking in one voice.
“It is the society’s decision, and the government accepts the decision of society, because it is a democratic government,” he said.
The foreign minister said India would not relent on its demand for the handing over of 20 terrorists, he did not identify, who are believed to have sought shelter in Pakistan. “There is no way that we will let go of the pressure. In all our talks with them, we maintain these demands as a part of our strategy.”
Separately, Mr Khurshid participated in a debate on India’s foreign policy, which was tempered by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Intervening in the discourse on Pakistan in the wake of the flare-up on the
Line of Control, Congress scion Rahul Gandhi on Saturday made some plain speaking, saying taking tough steps and showing emotions were two different things.
Mr Gandhi, who spoke in the sub-group on ‘India and the World’ at the party’s brainstorming conclave in Jaipur, reportedly told the participants that while tough steps were taken in some situations, decisions cannot be guided by emotions, sources said.
“We should take tough steps but not be emotional in our response,” he said as the majority of participants sought unspecified tough action against Pakistan.
Mr Khurshid advocated “balance” in dealing with “such provocative” situations.
He pointed out that India conducted its diplomacy in such a way that it maintained friendly relationships with countries, which were sworn enemies between themselves.

New Jersey mom attacked with knife while shopping with her baby at Bed Bath and Beyond

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A New Jersey mother shopping with her baby at a Bed Bath and Beyond store was brutally attacked by a knife-wielding man with a history of violent behavior, police say.


Kerri Dalton, 29, had been upgraded Saturday from critical to good condition after being stabbed more than 20 times in the grisly, and apparently random, Thursday attack at a store in Middletown, N.J. Both Dalton’s lungs were punctured but her 5-month-old baby, who was in a baby carriage, was unharmed, authorities say.

Dalton was somehow able to phone 911 as she laid bloody on the ground, and police later arrested Tyrik Haynes, 19, in connection with the attack. He was charged with attempted murder and is being held on $1 million bail.

Haynes, of Middletown, N.J. was facing trial next month on charges of torching a cat to death. Authorities told the Asbury Park Press that Haynes adopted the cat online, then took it in its carrier into the woods near his home on Christmas Eve and set the helpless animal ablaze using a lighter and an aerosol can.
We found the cat a week and a half ago in the wooded area,” said Victor Amato of the Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. “It was dead from the burns.”

Authorities are still unclear why Dalton was targeted, but her family said the new mother was fighting through.

"She's holding up, she's strong, she's a fighter, she's my best friend," Dalton’s husband Roger told CBS New York on Friday. "I want to thank everyone for keeping us in their prayers."

Imran threatens ‘tsunami march to save democracy

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The PTI, he said, would go for its own protest plan, when required, stating that the party workers had already been told to remain prepared for his call.


Referring to the long march led by Dr Tahirul Qadri, Mr Khan said it was the first step towards a ‘true change’ and the next elections would herald a major change in Pakistan. “The status quo forces are now claiming that the long march has failed. Actually this was the first step towards change as thousands of people came out on roads to bring about a change,” he said.

Mr Khan, who had refused to join the TMQ’s sit-in at the last moment, on the one hand termed Dr Qadri’s march a positive step but on the other called it ‘unconstitutional’, saying the PTI did not participate in the long march because it always resisted ‘unconstitutional moves’.

He said the nation had already endured the PPP government for five years and now when polls were just a few weeks away the PPP would not be allowed to become ‘a political martyr’.

The declaration signed by the government with Dr Qadri, he said, had no legal or constitutional status and it was not binding on the rulers.

Responding to a question, Mr Khan did not rule out possibility of electoral alliance with Dr Qadri. However, he said that Dr Qadri was yet to decide about participation in elections.

Mr Khan said both the TMQ and PTI had similar demands and views regarding change, but their approaches were different. The PTI, he said, wanted change only through the ballot.

The PTI chief reiterated his demand that President Asif Ali Zardari immediately resign as under him holding of free, fair and transparent election was almost impossible.

He criticised the comments of PML-N president Nawaz Sharif that in case of President Zardari’s resignation, the PPP would elect a new president. After his resignation, Mr Khan said, Senate Chairman Nayyar Bokhari would become the acting president of the country.

The PTI chief also claimed that so far his party had not been consulted on the issue of the nomination of the caretaker prime minister.

It may be mentioned that PML-N’s Chaudhry Nisar had claimed that the PTI had even suggested its own names for the caretaker prime minister. Mr Khan said the federal and Punjab governments were dolling out huge funds in the name of development to its
lawmakers and even candidates.

He urged the Election Commission of Pakistan to take notice of this practice.

He urged the chief justice to take notice of mysterious death of NAB officer Kamran Faisal who was investigating the rental power project scam.

He said that Kamran had been murdered to send a message to others investigating sensitive cases.

Bootylicious… meet the 420lb mother of four with the widest hips in the world who measures a staggering 8ft in circumference

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One lady most certainly of the opinion that men prefer curves is Mikel Ruffinelli, a 420-pound mother of four who measures a staggering eight-foot in circumference.

At just five-foot-four, 39-year-old Mikel, who lives in Los Angeles, is substantially wider than she is tall, but says she wouldn’t want it any other way.
‘I love my shape and I see no reason to diet because I don’t have health problems,’ explains Mikel, has a proportionally small 40-inch waist. ‘Men don’t fancy skinny girls, they like an hourglass figure.’
While the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Kim Kardashian and Beyonce will probably all agree, they don’t have to face the kind of challenges that Mikel does on a daily basis.
As well as having to walk through most doors sideways, Mikel drives a truck because she can’t fit into a car. At home, the woman with the widest hips in the world has to sit in steel-supported chairs and sleeps on a 7ft-wide bed.
Mikel’s biggest fan is her husband, Reggie Brooks, a 40-year-old computer technician. They’ve been married 10 years and Mikel says that he finds her unusual shape sexy and tells her every day just how beautiful she is.
Mikel hasn’t always been plus-sized, as a teenager she was quite athletic and weighed 140-pounds although she did have big hips - a trait she says that runs in her family.
At 22, Mikel had her first child, Andrew, now 19, from a previous relationship, and that is when she started gaining the weight. From 182-pounds and a size 14, she piled on the pounds until she was 238-pounds and a size 18.
Then she meet Reggie and over the next decade had three more children: Destynee, 13, Autumn, nine, and Justyce, seven. Her hips ballooned as she reached 420 pounds and a size 30.
‘I put it down to my pregnancies. I don’t see why else the weight would go to my hips, although, I do eat lots,’ she told Closer.
Mikel, who is studying for a psychology degree, has a healthy appetite and typically consumes 3,000 calories a day.
'It sounds like a lot to have 3,000 calories, but for someone my size, it’s not really.
'I might have a breakfast of two eggs with sausage and bacon and a handful of potatoes. Lunch is fried fish and French fries, but dinner’s my big meal,' she confesses.
'I like to make barbecue chicken with rice or mash. I have a big portion – but I’m not greedy. I snack on peanuts, granola bars and crisps.'
As she has gotten older Mikel says she had grown more comfortable with her shape and size.
'In the past, I was self-conscious about my hips and tried milkshake diets, but they didn’t work. As I got older, I learned to love my body and now I’m not afraid to show it off.'
Over the past five years as her confidence has grown she has taken to modelling for a Big Beautiful Women website and earns up to $1000 per shoot.
She says: 'I mostly wear lingerie. I have two seamstresses who make my outfits, although I can easily find clothes for my top half, it’s the bottoms that are a problem.'
Mikel also makes an effort to be healthy and while running on land is problematic, she enjoys water aerobics.
Over the years Mikel has grown accustomed to people staring and making sarcastic comments, but has learned to just ignore them.
'I don’t want to get bigger, but I don’t want to lose my curves. I look great. I hope I inspire women to think, "She’s happy with her body and I can be too!"'

7-year-old girl raped in school toilet in Goa

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Panaji, Jan 14 (IANS) A seven-year-old girl was raped in the toilet of a school in Vasco town Monday evening, police said.



The minor girl was found in shock in the toilet and when her parents discovered she was raped, they along with their friends and local residents locked the school with the teachers and management still in side.
Later Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar as well as other local politicians have arrived at vasco, 40 km from here, where over 500 concerned and agitating people had still blocked access to the school..
Police said that they had still not been able to nab the accused, who they suspect had fled even before the melee started.
"We have a description given to us by the girl. No arrests have been made yet," a police official said.



You can get raped in India

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Shame on Indian political leaders! Shame on India as a nation. Today is a day that will be remembered as the Black Day for Indian women.

The gangrape victim died today in Singapore. Experts consulted by the government before transferring the critically-ill Delhi gang rape survivor to Singapore have told "The Hindu" they were only asked if the patient was fit to be airlifted — not if the move was medically advisable.

Government of India created an impression that she was airlifted as a result of a medical decision. The coverup started long time back in a country where it is easy to get raped by hooligans political parties bring in large cities to win elections. The police is used by the ruling political parties as their own political goons. As a result police have least interest in securing safety of women from thugs and hooligans. New Delhi police is more interested in escorting VIPs than protecting Delhi women and their dignity. That is why Delhi has become the rape capital of India.

“I just can’t understand why a critically ill patient with infection in blood and body, high grade fever and on the ventilator is being transferred,” said Dr. Samiran Nundy, chairman of the organ transplant and gastro-surgery department of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. “It will take weeks in this case to even look into the possibility of an intestinal transplant so why hurry and take the patient out from a facility which works so well. It seems more of a political move.”

It is all about dirty politics. First the Delhi cops were used to attack the anti-rape protester and Indian Home Minister called the protestors Maoists. Then the gang raped woman was airlifted to Singapore to show the public that the Government cares about taking care of rape victims.

In the mean time many more rapes were committed on suicide all over India and some of the victims committed suicide. Most of the rapes were possible because of lack of interest on male dominated Indian police force to bring rapists to justice. What do expect in a nation that prides in Pandava (the good ones) who put DRaupadi (wife) on betting game and let the Kauravas (bad ones) strip her in the public!

It is a day of shame for all Indians whether in India or abroad. Bigger shame is for Indian politicians who still keep making comments degrading the status of Indian women whether it is an MLA in West Bengal or it is President of India's own son, an elected member of the Parliament.


World laughs at Indian

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Sonia Gandhi and Rahul, her son, are confident Rs. 500 cash bribes for poorest Indian one lakh family will do the job of winning election and keeping their "Gandhi" dynasty alive.

Servant Manmohan of PMO has been asked to take care of the necessary mechanisms so that necessary bills are passed to win the elections in 2014 and 2019. They plan to flood India with scam money earned and kept in Swiss Banks. After all politics is just a business, invest and get returns(loot the exchequer).

What is surprising and really unbelievable is the pose of the Gandhi's in distributing the hard earned tax money of the people as their own. What is more surprising is the jokers that surround these scam masters and obey their diktats.



Visions of hell

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HELL,” wrote Jean-Paul Sartre in his play No Exit, “is other people”. But Satan, in Milton’s Paradise Lost, utters this anguished cry: “Which way I flie is Hell; my self am Hell.”



He goes on: “The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.”

Both quotes are drawn from the recent Christmas edition of The Economist; this is my favourite end of the year read, containing as it does an eclectic collection of long articles on a variety of subjects. One such piece, ‘Into Everlasting Fire’, examines the evolution of the concept of hell across time and in different faiths.

I remember reading Dante’s Divine Comedy in my late teens. The classic work contains probably the most gruesome and vivid description of hell in literature. The section titled ‘The Inferno’ gives a detailed account of the nine circles of hell, ranging from the outer circle for unbaptised babies to the innermost one where Satan is frozen up till his neck.

There was no concept of hell in early Judaism, and it only made an appearance due to Hellenic influence. But even then the Jewish gehenna is more of a purgatory where souls are cleansed; whatever their deeds in life, they don’t stay in this waiting room for more than 12 months.

In medieval Christianity, the Vatican authorised the sale of ‘indulgences’ that helped to offset the buyer’s sins after he died. This device raised a lot of money for the Church, but was subject to much abuse as the rich used it as a licence to sin. In fact, this was one of the major aberrations that Martin Luther wanted to cleanse Christianity of. Having read of this practice at university, I was delighted to learn recently that it is still possible to buy indulgences online.

In a sense, this is not unlike our custom of asking the local mosque to send a group of students to recite from the Holy Book. We hope that after a relative’s death, this will help the dear departed to clear up some of his or her sins. We have all seen these young aspiring clerics racing through the sacred verses at funerals.

Note also the similarity between the Jewish gehenna and our jahannum. The latter, of course, is quite detailed in its description of everlasting torments, while in the New Testament the former is a reference to a rubbish dump that is always on fire and where the bodies of criminals are thrown.

Greek mythology contains many blood-curdling accounts of what happens to those who have offended the gods in this life. But most souls are placed in an indeterminate state where their days are spent in shadows and dark dreams. Ultimately they fade away. Hades, the god of the underworld, governs this part of creation, and his servant, Cerberus, the terrifying multi-headed dog, guards the way across the river Archon. Charon ferries souls from the world of the living, provided a gold coin is placed on the lips of the dead body.

Both Buddhism and Hinduism contain robust accounts of hell. Indeed, divine retribution in one form or another is the staple of most religions. It probably makes human suffering in this life more bearable if we can visualise the rich and powerful being subjected to everlasting torment.

Many of us have joked about preferring hell to heaven as the more interesting people will be there. In truth, it’s hard to imagine the likes of Sartre, Brigitte Bardot and Albert Camus — to name only a few I’d like to spend eternity with — being sent to heaven. So personally, I’ll settle for the demons and the hellfire if I am spared endless mealy-mouthed piety.

On a more serious note, I often used to wonder when I was young why a compassionate deity would inflict eternal pain on beings created in their maker’s image. The Anglican Church has resolved this dilemma by accepting that the Christian hell is metaphorical and not a real place. Other faiths downplay eternal damnation in these sceptical times.

After all, a lack faith should automatically doom the non-believer to perdition. And yet, in the recent census in England and Wales, only 59 per cent of the population declared themselves followers of any religion. This figure has declined from 72 per cent in the last census. So should the other 41 per cent go to hell after they die? It would certainly make for overcrowding …

Incidentally, out of the 59 per cent who declared they subscribed to a faith, many thousands put down Jedi Knights in the religion column. If they go over to the Dark Side in this life, will they be condemned to serve the evil Sith Lord forever?

Some fundamentalist Christians in the United States run ‘hell houses’ to introduce teenagers to the tortures of the damned. These contain sights and sounds from an imaginary hell intended to scare the young into believing in the real thing, thereby — in theory at least — bringing them closer to the faith. At one famous Buddhist temple I have visited in Sri Lanka, images of demons and the damned are painted on the walls. This, again, is intended to frighten those of feeble belief into accepting the gospel without questioning it.

The location of hell differs from faith to faith. The general consensus is that it is deep underground, near the hottest part of the earth’s core. Some speculate that as the sun generates the most intense heat known to us, that’s where hell is. For the Greeks, underground rivers like the Styx provided the entrance to hell. But wherever it is, it’s not a very pleasant place.

Reward and punishment are woven into the fabric of most religions: be good and go to heaven; sin, and it’s off to hell you go. In this Manichean view, there is little room for morality and ethics for their own sake. Our maker clearly views us as too weak and fallible to do good simply because it’s the right thing.

And while many around the world have discarded the notion of a literal hell, others believe in hellfire and brimstone. My personal vision of hell is being locked up with crowds of shoppers in a mall in Dubai for all eternity.

Oldest and youngest vie for best actress Oscar

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This year’s nominees for the best actress Oscar include the oldest ever and the youngest, nine-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis, who reportedly lied about her age to get the job.


At 85, French actress Emmanuelle Riva in “Amour” is only two years younger than the oldest ever nominee in an acting category, 87-year-old Gloria Stuart, nominated as best supporting actress for “Titanic” in 1997.
Riva is tipped for her role in Austrian Michael Haneke’s “Amour,” which is also nominated for best film and best foreign language film, after winning the Cannes film festival’s Palme d’Or last year.
Schoolgirl Wallis meanwhile was nominated for her role in “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” a fantasy drama in which she lives at the edge of the world in a community reminiscent of Louisiana faced with Hurricane Katrina.
According to the IMDb movie industry website, she had to fib about her age to audition for the movie, as she was five at the time and the minimum age to be considered was six.
Director Benh Zeitlin said that when he auditioned her, he realized she was what he was looking for, and changed the scrip to accommodate her “strong-willed personality,” it said.
She also appeared on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” last June and told him that the Zhane part of her name means “fairy” in Swahili.
On Thursday, the movie’s co-producer Michael Gottwald told how filmmakers “freaked out for about 15 minutes straight” while watching the pre-dawn announcement, before going to Wallis’ hotel room to celebrate her nomination.
The other nominees up for best actress are Jessica Chastain for “Zero Dark Thirty,” Jennifer Lawrence for “Silver Linings Playbook” and Naomi Watts for “The Impossible.”
The winners will be announced at the 85th Academy Awards, to be held on February 24 in the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood.

Jolie talking to Putin over US child adoption

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ANGELINA Jolie has approached Russian President Vladimir Putin about repealing the nation’s recent ban on Americans adopting children from his country. And, according to American tabloid the National Enquirer, the powerful politician responded by asking Angie to tie the knot with Brad Pitt in Russia.
“Instead of selling her wedding photos for millions and donating the money to charity, Angelina now has the chance to make a political statement with her walk down the aisle,” a source said. “After she asked President Putin to relax his country’s new adoption policy, he agreed to consider it - if she agrees to marry Brad Pitt in a high-profile ceremony in the heart of Moscow or one of the famous palaces in St. Petersburg.” On December 28, Putin signed a bill that bans US citizens from adopting Russian children, raising tensions with Washington.  

Argo triumphs at Critics Awards

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HOSTAGE drama Argo was the big winner at this year’s Critics’ Choice Awards, hours after director Ben Affleck missed out on an Oscar nomination.
Affleck jokingly “thanked the Academy” as he accepted best director, but added: “This is the one that counts.” The movie was also named best film.
Oscar favourites Daniel Day Lewis and Jessica Chastain won the best actor and actress prizes respectively. In a separate comedy category, Silver Linings Playbook swept the board.
The film won best comedy actor and actress for leads Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, best comedy film, and best ensemble for a cast which includes Oscar nominees Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver. Director David O Russell dedicated his award to his son - who, like the film’s male lead has bipolar disorder - saying: “I made it to give him hope,” adding, “That’s my silver lining.”
Lawrence, who bagged an Oscar nomination for best actress on Thursday, also took home the best actress in an action movie for The Hunger Games, based on the bestselling book.
“Critics aren’t so bad,” she joked, as she accepted the award,
Skyfall was named best action movie, a day after it failed to become the first Bond film to secure a best picture Oscar nomination.
Its star Daniel Craig also picked up the best actor in an action film prize, and Adele won the best song award for the title song Skyfall - a prize she is tipped to win at the Oscars. The awards are handed out by the 250-member Broadcast Film Critics Association, the largest film critics organisation in the United States and Canada. Les Miserables’ Anne Hathaway, who attended the ceremony in Los Angeles with her co-star Hugh Jackman received the best supporting actress prize, while Philip Seymour Hoffman was named best supporting actor for his turn as a cult leader in The Master.
Quentin Tarantino picked up best original screenplay for his spaghetti western-style film Django Unchained. Munich screenwriter Tony Kushner won Lincoln’s second award of the night, for best adapted screenplay. The presidential drama leads the Oscar hopefuls with 12 Academy Award nominations.
However, Life of Pi - nominated for 11 Oscars - only won two technical awards. Comedy writer and director Judd Apatow, best known for box office hits such as The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up, received a special “genius” award created to honour “an unprecedented demonstration of excellence in the cinematic arts”. The awards precede Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony.

Angry Hazaras refuse to bury blast dead

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The leaders of Quetta Yakjeti Council (QYC) declared on Friday they would not bury the victims of twin blasts until Army is deployed in the city and the Balochistan Governor fulfilled his responsibilities.Leaders of QYC Abdul Qayyum Changezai, Alama Juma Asadi, Allama Hashim Musavi and others stated this while addressing a joint Press conference.
It may be mentioned here that hundreds of protesters hailing from Hazara community, including women and children have staged a sit-in at Alamdar Road since morning in severe cold and rain along with 82 bodies of the victims.No provincial minister or MPA turned up to meet and negotiate with the protesters and console with them. They said they had no more trust in the provincial government, adding along with media persons several Shias were killed in the deadly blasts.“This is barbarism against Hazara community and we strongly condemn it,” they said, adding everybody knew who was behind all these killings.They said Lashkar-e-Jhangvi had claimed responsibility for the blasts through media but it was surprising that the government was not taking action against the banned outfit. “The rulers have no more right to remain in power,” they said.They said they would only negotiate with Federal government stating they had no more trust in the provincial government thus Quetta should be handed over to the Army.The provincial capital remained shut throughout the day on Friday to mourn the victims of Thursday’s bombings that left nearly 100 people dead, besides wounding 150 others.First bomb blast at Bacha Khan Chowk killed 12 people, including an FC personnel while two suicide blasts took place on Alamdar Road, in a Shia neighbourhood which claimed 82 lives.Baloch United Army claimed responsibility for first blast while the outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi said it was behind the bombings on Alamdar Road. The Balochistan government has announced a-three -day mourning across the province.All major shopping malls and business centres in Quetta remained closed on the shutter down call of the Anjuman-e-Tajiran Balochistan which was also supported by other political and nationalist parties. Traffic was also sparse on roads.Addressing a press conference, Anjuman-e-Tajiran President Abdul Rahim Kakar gave 48-hour ultimatum to the government for arresting the perpetrators.Hundreds of Hazara people blocked Brewery Road and Bacha Khan Chowk by burning tyres and erecting barricades in protests against the killings of their people.Protesters shouted slogans against the government and demanded protection. “We will not bury dead bodies of our beloved ones until Army takes the control of Quetta city,” they demanded.Separately, addressing a press conference, Hazara Democratic Party (HDP) President Abdul Khaliq Hazara said that rulers in Balochistan had lost credibility to rule in the province and they should be supplanted by an interim government.He said ‘violence is like a virus and if not stopped, it would not be limited to Hazara community rather it would hunt down all ethnicities living in the city.He strongly criticised law enforcement agencies for their alleged failure to curb incidents of sectarian killings in which plethora of Hazara people were slain.Three journalists who were died when they went for the coverage of the first bombing on Alamdar Road were buried in Quetta and Karachi.Imran Sheikh and Muhammad Iqbal were buried in Quetta while Saifur Rehman Baloch was laid to rest in Karachi. Journalists observed a ‘black day’ in the province and hoisted black flags on gates and rooftops of the press clubs, besides wearing black bands on the arms.Quetta Press Club President Saleem Shahid strongly condemned the killing of the journalists, calling it a great loss to journalist fraternity of Balochistan. He said that about 30 journalists had been killed in bomb blasts and targeted killings across the province in four years but no attention was being paid to provide safety and protection to them.He said that breaking news norm of channels had put the lives of reporters, cameramen and technicians on stake and several journalists had lost lives during coverage of bomb blasts.Senior journalist Shehzada Zulfiqar said that unabated killings of journalists were being reported in Balochistan but authorities kept mum and did nothing to protect media persons.Balochistan Governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi paid a visit to Combined Military Hospital where he inquired about the health of the injured and strongly condemned the brutality of terrorists.

Altaf likens his British nationality to Quaid-i-Azam’s

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MQM chief Altaf Hussain on Thursday laid the foundation of a new controversy in the country by equating his 22-year stay in Britain and acquisition of the nationality of that country to that of Quaid-i-Azam who not only carried the same document but as the governor general of Pakistan had also taken the oath of allegiance to British King George VI.In his 90-minute address to a gathering of his supporters at the Lal Qila Ground, telecast live by almost all channels, he said Quaid-i-Azam’s successors Khwaja Nazimuddin and Ghulam Muhammad had also taken the same oath.Before his speech the media came up with a variety of speculations about the possible ‘drone attack’ that the MQM leader could come up with. However, none had the wildest idea that it would be this.Reading out the wording of the governor general’s oath, the MQM chief also defended the Quaid’s act as an unavoidable legal requirement.It is unfair to infer that allegiance to another country taken just to meet a legal formality dilutes the maker’s patriotism, the MQM leader argued. “If the Quaid could do so, why Pakistanis living in other countries could not do the same?” he asked.Then he cited the examples of the PPP and the PML-N leaders to support his argument. He said PML-N President Nawaz Sharif, along with his family, stayed in Saudi Arabia for some eight years and various PPP leaders spent some 10 years out of Pakistan. But, he wondered, nobody questioned their patriotism. He said even such religious parties as had opposed the very creation of Pakistan were now regarded as patriotic.Altaf Hussain asked if the Saudi monarch would have offered him a ‘palace’ when he had left Pakistan in 1992, he would not have taken the British citizenship.Nobody, he said, would like to stay out of his country by choice. He asked his supporters if they would like him to take the first available flight back to Pakistan. In response, they said he shouldn’t. They said the reasons on the basis of which the Quaid-i-Azam had stayed in Britain were also applicable to him. The MQM chief used the same arguments to defend Tehrik Minhajul Quran Chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri, who is a Canadian national. He said dual nationality did not make anyone’s loyalty to his parent country suspect. The MQM chief reiterated that his party would take an active part in the long march to be led by Dr Qadri from Lahore to Islamabad to mount pressure on the government to accept his demands.He said if in reaction to this decision the government removed the Sindh governor, who is an MQM nominee, he would not care.“We are not power hungry”.Altaf Hussain said in a coalition the partners had to digest even such decisions as were unacceptable to them. The MQM had acquiesced to many such decisions taken by the PPP leadership, and now it’s the PPP’s turn to stomach the one taken by its partner.This clearly meant that he wanted the PPP to accept the MQM’s decision to take part in the long march.Alleging that all parties talking of democracy were not democratic in their attitudes and the MQM was the only exception. This, he said, was the only party that brought educated middle class people to the assemblies in large numbers.He said feudals were part of every system, no matter what it was.The MQM believed in real democracy which started with the local bodies system. In the absence of this lowest tier of government, the system could not be called democratic.He said in case the government did not take steps for the local government system in Sindh, Urdu-speaking population would be constrained to seek the creation of a separate province. But he hastened to add that the MQM did not support the division of Sindh and the PPP should not push it to the wall.

Qadri calls for formation of ‘impartial’ election commission

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Tahirul Qadri, chief of the Tehrik-i-Minhajul Quran (TMQ), has called for the Election Commission of Pakistan to be dissolved and a new “impartial commission” to be formed, two days before his party marches on Islamabad for electoral reforms in Pakistan.

Speaking at a press conference in Lahore on Saturday, Qadri announced his charter of demands before the upcoming general elections. Qadri said that the charter consists of seven points out of which one will be announced today and the rest will be revealed in Islamabad.

Among his demands, Qadri called for the formation of an impartial election commission to be formed in place of the current ECP.

Qadri said that, apart from the chairman of the ECP, all four heads of the provincial commissions were politically appointed by the provincial administrations.

Qadri said that the CEC Fakhruddin G Ebrahim was an honest man, however, he would not be able to conduct impartial elections due to his old age.

The TMQ chief further demanded that polls be held according to Articles 62, 63 and 218 of the Constitution.

He said that the people will not accept elections if they are not held under these constitutional articles.

Qadri added that the door for negotiations was never closed, however, final negotiations will only be held in front of millions of people in Islamabad.

Washington, D.C., residents watch more porn than the rest of America study

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Vice President Joe Biden's plan to curb gun violence falls on deaf ears in meeting with National Rifle Association

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The National Rifle Association came out firing Thursday after meeting with Vice President Biden on curbing gun violence, calling the sitdown worthless and vowing to thwart new gun laws in Congress.
The politically powerful lobbying group issued a scathing statement accusing the White House of waging war on the constitutional rights of Americans to bear arms.
“While claiming that no policy proposals would be ‘prejudged,’ this task force spent most of its time on proposed restrictions on lawful firearms owners — honest, taxpaying, hardworking Americans,” the NRA said. “It is unfortunate that this administration continues to insist on pushing failed solutions to our nation’s most pressing problems. We will not allow law-abiding gun owners to be blamed for the acts of criminals and madmen.”
The 90-minute, closed-door sitdown between Biden and gun-owner groups headlined a day of meetings convened by the vice president’s task force to develop a plan to curb gun violence.
Biden announced that he will present President Obama with a package of proposals by Tuesday - a month and day after the deadly shooting rampage at a Newtown, Conn., grade shool galvanized the White House into action.
There has got to be some common ground - to not solve every problem but diminish the probability" of mass killings like the rampage in Newtown, Biden said. "There is nothing that has gone to the heart of the matter more than the visual image people have of little 6-year-old kids riddled - not shot with a stray bullet - riddled, riddled, with bullet holes in their classroom," Biden said.
As Biden spoke, a teacher and a student were shot and wounded at a high school in California’s San Joaquin Valley.

The injured student was in critical condition and another student was taken into custody.
White House officials said the vice president didn’t expect to win over the NRA and other gun groups. But the administration was hoping to soften their opposition in order to rally support from pro-gun lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Complaining that Biden and his task force spent most of the closed-door meeting on "proposed restrictions on lawful firearms owners," the NRA declared that it "will not allow law-abiding gun owners to be blamed for the acts of criminals and madmen."
"Instead, we will now take our commitment and meaningful contributions to members of Congress of both parties who are interested in having an honest conversation about what works - and what does not."

The statement, to which Biden's office refused to respond, amounted to a declaration from the gun owners' group that it will end its grudging dialogue with the White House and work with allies in Congress to block new gun controls.



Teen shooter targeted two classmates he believed bullied him at Taft Union High School in California; heroic teacher helps disarm the gunman

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A student who believed he was the victim of bullying opened fire with a shotgun in a central California high school on Thursday, critically wounding one student and narrowly missing another before being talked down by a “heroic” teacher, law enforcement said.

The teacher suffered a pellet to the head and is expected to recover, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said during a news conference. At least two other students were lightly hurt in the panic after shots erupted around 9:30 a.m. inside Taft Union High School, in Taft, Calif., about 40 miles south of Bakersfield.
Youngblood told reporters that he could not confirm whether the suspect had indeed been bullied at the school.
"But certainly he believed that the two people he had targeted had bullied him," Youngblood said.

The 16-year-old male shooter was in custody, and a shotgun was removed from campus. The wounded student, also 16, was airlifted to a hospital in Bakersfield in critical condition after suffering a bullet to the upper right chest, Kern County Deputy Ryan Dunbier told the Daily News.

The gunman apparently had intended his targets and had planned his assault the night before, authorities said.
He walked in late to his first-period class armed with a shotgun and “multiple rounds,” aiming and firing at the first student, Youngblood said. Approximately 28 students inside the class scurried for cover.

The teen then “named a second (student)...he tried to shoot but missed,” the sheriff said.

The teacher, Ryan Heber, engaged the student in conversation, and a campus supervisor, Kim Lee Fields, rushed into the room, urging the teen to lay down his weapon.
They talked him into putting that shotgun down. He in fact told the teacher ‘I don’t want to shoot you,’” Youngblood said.
“The heroics of these two people (the teacher and campus supervisor) goes without saying," he said. "They could have just as easily tried to get out of the classroom and left students, and they didn't. They knew not to let him leave the classroom with that shotgun."
The shooter and his first victim reportedly had a “dialogue” before Thursday’s incident, but the details were not known.
Terrified students were evacuated, and worried parents gathered to pick their kids up in a nearby football field.
The mother of one student told KERO-TV her daughter called 911 and then called home. "There's just blood everywhere," she said. "My friend's been shot; my teacher has been shot," the frantic student told her mom.
The school shooting came as Vice President Joe Biden meets with victims of gun violence and gun rights groups to try and hammer out legislation to curb gun violence in the U.S. He is due to give recommendations to President Barack Obama next Tuesday.
The president put Biden in charge of a task force to examine gun control laws following the massacre of 20 small children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown Conn., on Dec. 14.

The FBI was also on scene to assist local authorities in Taft, a mostly agricultural town of about 10,000 people in Kern County, 125 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Local officers went room-to-room to clear the school, Dunbier told the News.

Law enforcement said the situation could have been worse.
“This is a tragedy,” Youngblood said. “But not as bad as it could have been.”






Jodi Arias Femme fatale or woman of faith? Jurors hear conflicting persona in murder trial as prosecutors play phone calls of Arias lying

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Jurors in the murder trial against Jodi Arias are faced with two conflicting images of a beautiful brunette who killed her ex-beau: Was she a femme fatale or a timid woman of faith tricked into a lewd lifestyle?
As the trial continued this week, jurors in Arizona’s Maricopa County Court listened as a medical official gave the gruesome details in the 2008 death of 30-year-old Travis Alexander. Crime scene photos caused at least one juror to wipe away tears as the victim’s family was visibly shaken as well, ABC News reported.
Arias, who faces the death penalty, also broke down in the courtroom.
The 32-year-old has admitted to killing Alexander in his Mesa home, but claims it was in self-defense after he allegedly attacked her for damaging his camera. Police say the insurance salesman was shot in the head, slashed from ear to ear, and stabbed at least 27 times.
Phone calls were played of Arias telling police she tried to contact Alexander the week he died, although authorities say she was lying because she knew he was no longer alive.
Arias claimed she was driving from Los Angeles to Utah in June 2008 to see a new man she was dating, ABC News reported.
“On Tuesday night (I talked to him), it was brief though, 10 o'clock maybe,” she is heard telling a detective. “I'd say 10 p.m. or 9-9:30. I was calling people because I was bored on the road. He was nice and cordial, but kind of acting like he had hurt feelings.”
She went on that she tried contacting him the next day.
“I may have called (Alexander) Wednesday from the road, and I sent him a couple of text messages, and a couple of pictures,” she said, although his voicemail was full. “That’s unusual. He deletes all of his messages. I didn’t want to be obsessive about it because we’re not together anymore and I didn’t like to call too much.”
But it was that Wednesday when Arias had actually gone to see Alexander in his home, court records say. The pair had a final fling and even took pictures on Alexander’s camera, which despite being thrown into a washing machine was retrieved as evidence.
One photo showed Alexander in the shower moments before he was killed.
Prosecutors say that even though Alexander and Arias had broken up about a year earlier, they continued to have sex together and that she jealously stalked him. She reportedly converted to Mormonism for him.
Arias, a photographer from California, has given different versions of what happened that day, even telling the TV program “Inside Edition” after her arrest on July 18, 2008, that two intruders broke into the home and killed Alexander.
The new love interest, Ryan Burns, testified in court Wednesday that Arias finally did meet up with him, and the pair shared a chaste relationship — nothing like the one she had with Alexander — centered around their Mormonism.
“Every time we started kissing it got a little more escalated,” Burns testified. “Our clothes never came off. At some point she was kissing my neck, I was kissing hers, but our clothes never came off.”
He added that she “would often tell me about how she felt about her religious beliefs, the Book of Mormon.”
While Arias’ defense attorney has said in court that it was Alexander who was abusive, essentially corrupting her sexually, prosecutors say there are emails in which he felt sexually used.
Arias previously told “Inside Edition” that she believes she will be exonerated.
“No jury is going to convict me,” she said. “I am innocent and you can mark my words on that.”
The trial was scheduled to continue Thursday.




Former President Bill Clinton pushes for stricter gun control during Consumer Electronics Show speech

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Former President Bill Clinton was a surprise guest on Wednesday at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where he seized his opportunity to make a push for greater gun control during a speech about technology.
“I grew up in this hunting culture, but this is nuts,” the Arkansas native said. “Why does anybody need a 30 round clip for a gun? Why does anybody need one of those things that carries 100 bullets?”
Clinton’s remarks come as an Obama administration task force is crafting a series of recommendations to stem gun violence following the horrific mass shooting at an elementary school in Newton, Conn., which killed 20 small children and six adults.
Vice President Biden, who is spearheading the effort, is scheduled to meet on Thursday with the National Rifle Association as well as with Wal-Mart, the nation’s top seller of guns.
During Clinton’s speech on Wednesday, the former president seemed to favor reinstating the federal assault weapons that expired 10 years after he signed into law in 1994.
“Half of all mass killings in the United States have occurred since the assault weapons ban expired in 2005,” he said. “Half of all of them in the history of the country.”
Clinton also alluded to the National Rifle Association’s controversial proposal to protect students against mass shootings by placing armed guards in schools, saying it can’t be the only solution to the problem of gun violence.
“Do there need to be some armed guards in some schools where there is a high crime rate and kids themselves may take weapons to school? Absolutely,” he said. “But it is not an excuse not to deal with this issue.”
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2013 Oscar Awards Directors Kathryn Bigelow (‘Zero Dark Thirty’), Ben Affleck (‘Argo’) and Tom Hooper (‘Les Miserables’) are among the shocking snubs

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Every year, movie fans and Academy Award aficionados watch the Oscar nominations to see whose work has been singled out.
And, just as much, to see who’s been left out.
The 85th Oscar noms, announced Thursday, are no different. While frontrunners like Daniel Day-Lewis (“Lincoln”) and Anne Hathaway (“Les Miserables”) provide a cozy sense of mission accomplished, it’s fascinating to suss out which actors and filmmakers were omitted -- and why.
In the Best Picture race, critical fave “Moonrise Kingdom” lost the independent slot — not necessarily but often now just a one-film option — to the more heavily-touted “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” Also: Appreciated as “Kingdom” director Wes Anderson is, none of his quirky, intricate films have ever been nominated for the top prize.
At the other end of the spectrum is the massive blockbuster “Skyfall,” one of 2012’s biggest hits and the highest-grossing James Bond film ever. Many thought director Sam Mendes brought the necessary touch of Oscar class, and the movie’s deeper themes might resonate with Academy voters. (The reason to expand the Best Picture list beyond five, back in 2008, was to accommodate popular popcorn flicks like this).
But in a year that also saw “The Avengers,” “The Dark Knight Rises” and “The Hobbit” make loads of cash but miss an Oscar spot, “Skyfall” may have been lumped in with them all.
 In the Best Actor race, Day-Lewis, Denzel Washington (“Flight"), Hugh Jackman (“Les Miz”) and Bradley Cooper (“Silver Linings Notebook” all were counted on, and did, get noms.
Cooper seemed vulnerable though, but got a spot, along with back-from-brink-of-weirdness genius Joaquin Phoenix. Left out were Richard Gere for “Arbitrage” — the movie was a video-on-demand miniature — and John Hawkes, whose turn as a paralyzed man seeking sex in “The Sessions” may have lost the sweetness vote to Cooper.
For Best Actress, former Oscar winner Marion Cotillard’s spot for “Rust and Bone” went to her elder countrywoman Emmanuelle Riva (“Amour”). And young Quvenzhané Wallis snuck up on Meryl Streep, whose common-gal performance in “Hope Springs” made her a dark horse.
 Also left out were Keira Knightley, whose “Anna Karenina” may have been tagged as too experimental for Oscar voters, and Helen Mirren, left in the shadow of “Hitchcock.”
Best Supporting Actor saw almost all safe-bet favorites get in. The outsiders were Leonardo DiCaprio, whose juicy, lip-smacking villain in “Django Unchained” lost a spot to his costar (and previous winner) Christoph Waltz. And Matthew McConaughey was a true wild card for “Magic Mike,” a popular hit that may have been too sassy for the Academy.

Texas woman raises $10,000 on Facebook to help dog that was SHOT REPEATEDLY in the face

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A dog that was shot several times in the face with a shotgun and thrown away in a garbage bag is on the road to recovery thanks to the efforts of one Texas woman, who raised more than $10,000 for the canine's medical care.

Tami Augustyn took the 60-to-70 pound dog to an emergency clinic Saturday after a neighbor in Conroe, Texas spotted the garbage bag tied to a fence on a road. The garbage bag was moving.

The clinic was able to stabilize the dog, who doctors say may have suffered some brain damage and permanent loss of his vision. But Buck, as he is now called, is going to get the help he needs.
"Today he's great," Augustyn told the Daily News on Tuesday. "He's very happy when he sees me, when he hears my voice."
Buck may be home with her now, but Augustyn had genuine fears about the dog's future when she realized she did not have the money to cover Buck's medical expenses.

She created a Facebook page in order to raise funds. When the Montgomery County Police Reporter did a story on Buck, the money started pouring in.

Augustyn said the donations reached more than $10,000 the last time she checked on Monday night.

"I was shocked," she said.

Buck will now get all the medical attention he needs. Augustyn plans to take him to an ophthalmologist on Wednesday, something she could only dream of doing a few days ago. She also plans on using the money to create The Buck Foundation, which will focus on helping abused dogs.
Fate may have had a hand in putting them together. When neighbors found Buck, they were not able to reach animal control. If they had been, Augustyn said it's possible Buck might have been put to sleep.

Augustyn has always had a passion for helping animals. She said she recently saved three starving puppies on the side of the road, and helped an ailing horse find a home. But she’s formed a special bond with Buck, and plans on keeping him for herself.

"What I did with Buck was no different than what I did a million times, except this dog was in a garbage bag tied to a t-post," she said.

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